Quotes About Publicity

I find that people are constantly coming up to me now. There's been a definite surge of people recognizing me and I'm not sure if it has to do with the DVDs or not, but I've sort of assumed that it does because the show has been off the air for three years now.

I know that people hate me. And I know I'm just a hack journalist and what we do on 'Lifestyles' isn't what you would call television brain surgery.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.

Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.

I'm surprised how easily Don Imus came back. He was off the air for a little while after the 'nappy-headed' comment in 2007, and then he's back as strong as ever.

One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

It surprises me how quickly the press likes to reach conclusions about my life.

Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.

Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.

I never thought the media would be interested in me - this is very surreal.

Kleos is sometimes translated as acoustic renown the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following.

Now King Alexander is driving down the familiar streets, curiously unguarded, in a curiously antique car. It can be seen from his attempt to make his stiff hand supple, from a careless flash of his careful black eyes, it can be seen that he is taking the cheers of the crowd with a childish seriousness. It is touching, like a girl putting full faith in the compliments that are paid to her at a ball.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world.

Once the world at large— or the media, to be more accurate— beatifies you, life is never the same. And because you cannot resist the stoking of your ego, no matter how hard you try, you begin to lose sight of yourself as just another workaday sinner.

Wilde also established another prime rule of fame in the modern age: that there is no such thing as bad publicity, there is only publicity. Success is better measured in column inches than by what those columns contain.

People never outgrow wanting to be liked for being who they truly are, especially when they've grown up in the limelight or its shadowy edge.

discover what could make you famous, and then proclaim that it already has.

The real pressure must be made more oppressive by making men conscious of the pressure, and the disgrace more disgraceful by publishing it.

I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.